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What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I... →
If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.
Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family.... →
We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned.... →
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new... →
One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more... →
During the Middle Ages they understood that words accompanied by imagery are much more memorable. By making the margins of a book colorful and... →
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and... →
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press... →
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I... →
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems... →
Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you... →
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